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Apple To Release Public Betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Today 88

Posted by msmash from the affinity-for-beta-os dept.
The next version of Apple's desktop operating system, macOS Sierra, will be made available in a public beta later today. Enthusiasts can also try their hands at iOS 10, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system today. Both the new operating system versions offer a range of new features and improvements. Sierra, for instance, features Siri voice assistant which will assist users with locating files, answering queries, and search for images and information just by asking. iOS 10 lets users write a message in their own handwriting, and has a feature called "Raise to Wake" which wakes up the device when a user picks up their iPhone. Notifications have gotten more powerful, and now show photos and videos as well. You will find the macOS Sierra preview here, and iOS 10 preview here. More information on Apple's beta program here.
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  • Too bad it won't run on my iPad. (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Apple once again provides forced obsolence to their devices, including the device known as the "New iPad".

    • Apple once again provides forced obsolence to their devices, including the device known as the "New iPad".

      Um, Every product is "The New..." at SOME point. Then it isn't.

      This is the first version of iOS for which my iPad 2 is incompatible. I consider that quite reasonable. It IS compatible with iOS 9, and it will be several years before that is "impossibly too old". Until then, (and even after that point), my iPad 2 will happily chug along, just like it has since my employer gifted it to me several years ago.

      • It IS compatible with iOS 9, and it will be several years before that is "impossibly too old".

        I had a 1st gen iPod Touch that lasted eight years until the battery died. Used it as a Kindle reader. I'm not surprised that the iPad 2 isn't getting updated. I'm planning to retire my iPad2 as an alarm clock with an air raid siren when I get another iPad in the future.

    • Linux once again provides forced obsolence <sic> to my i386 devices.

      • The difference between iOS dropping old devices and what Canonical is doing to Ubuntu in the 16.10-18.04 cycle is that PC users can jump ship to another GNU/Linux distribution that keeps i386 support active. With an iPad, on the other hand, you're stuck with whatever iOS distribution Apple signs.

        • That's true but also pretty irrelevant. Why in the world would someone buy an Apple product if they have an expectation of infinite software updates? It's not like Apple has suddenly changed policy.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by tepples ( 727027 )

            Then perhaps I misconstrued the presence or absence of hidden meaning in your comment. I took "Linux once again provides forced [obsolescence] to my i386 devices" to mean "which makes it no better than Apple". To be clear: is this what you intended?

            • I was mocking his whiny tone and trying to be funny. Linux may be "better" than Apple in this regard, but it is still a matter of degree. Old hardware won't be supported forever, no matter what your platform is. Apple is better than most vendors at supporting older devices - I'm still getting software updates for my late 2008 MacBook Pro. I mean, damn. But hardware-wise, they won't even sell me a new battery since it falls outside of their 5-year support policy [apple.com]. Eventually they won't bother compiling OSX fo

    • Apple once again provides forced obsolence to their devices, including the device known as the "New iPad".

      You call it forced obsolescence, we call it a software upgrade. And unlike MS, Apple doesn't have to vainly nag us to install it and users don't feel motivated to do whatever they can to avoid installing it.

  • "Storage space maxed out? No problem. macOS Sierra can help make more room by automatically storing rarely used files in the cloud and keeping them available on demand. It can also help you find and remove old files you no longer use. So there’s always room on your Mac for new files and the ones you’ve used most recently."

    Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud servi

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Yvan256 ( 722131 )

      Hopefully this feature is optional and not enabled by default.

      • I agree that it should not be enabled by default, but I also think it sounds useful if you have decent internet service.

        • Re: (Score:3)

          by swb ( 14022 )

          Transparent, user-configurable and multi-cloud tiered storage is very useful.

          Non-transparent, non-configurable and single-vendor tiered storage is an awful thing designed to jack up fees for users, spy on their data and an excuse to overprice under-sized local storage on vendor hardware offerings.

    • "Storage space maxed out? No problem. macOS Sierra can help make more room by automatically storing rarely used files in the cloud and keeping them available on demand. It can also help you find and remove old files you no longer use. So there’s always room on your Mac for new files and the ones you’ve used most recently."

      Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.

      From what I have read about "Storage Optimization", All that stuff is OPTIONAL. I personally don't use ANY Apple (or anyone else's) Cloud services.

    • So don't turn it on. Simple. Despite my handle there are a number of things that I would change about Apple, especially iOS. The quality of their products has started to go downhill over the last four or five years where they are focusing on the new shiny things and leaving everything else to stagnate. They have also lost the focus on keeping software easy to use in order to cram more features in. For example in the Music app on the iPhone it used to be very easy to change the volume if you were holding it

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by swb ( 14022 )

        The whole technology industry has gone downhill.

        Fixes to bugs and problems has been changed to "new version releases" which in many cases means buying the product again.

        Useful innovation has dropped off enormously in favor of changes designed to monetize users.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

        But I've never been forced to use their iCloud Drive storage or any other part of their cloud service. It's always been a prompt asking me if I wanted to turn it on and when I've clicked on no there has been no issues.

        Apple's been on a cloud/no-cloud path of late - they know you might not want any cloud stuff so they will ask if you want to turn it on or off. But if you do have it on, Apple wants to make sure you see a benefit so it's not just a way for companies to scrape user data to harvest information.

        T

    • "Storage space maxed out? No problem. macOS Sierra can help make more room by automatically storing rarely used files in the cloud and keeping them available on demand. It can also help you find and remove old files you no longer use. So there’s always room on your Mac for new files and the ones you’ve used most recently."

      Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.

      I'd probably have more space if Apple cleaned up after itself! I was looking through my ~/AppData/Roaming/Apple and ~/AppData/Local/Apple folders last night and found apple using over ~40GB of space on my machine for iOS crash dumps (sync'ed automatically via iTunes) (10GB), the last 5 years of iTunes installers (2GB), iPhone OS images (15GB for several different models over 4 or 5 years), iPad OS Images (2GB, I only had two different model iPads in that time), and a bunch of DMG files that I could not

  • I actually don't want to ever hear about OSX again, just because the new word is ugly.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Well, it's called macOS now so you won't be hearing about OS X again. And their other operating systems are called iOS, tvOS and watchOS.

      • Everything old is new again....

        Us old Mac folks remember MacOS, which is what they called it when the Mac clones came out. They went back to System 7, and System 8, 9.

        • It was always Mac OS from version 8, until the "OS X" branding that came along around 10.8 or so. the first 8 versions of OS X were officially "Mac OS X v10.[0-7]"

  • So... (Score:2)

    by Z80a ( 971949 )

    Does it run police quest and red baron well?

  • iOS 10 lets users write a message in their own handwriting

    Does this mean Nelson will finally be able to beat up Martin? Although I guess Martha will be dissappointed.

  • Based on my recent past experience, you can expect the public beta cycle to begin now and continue into early next year. The last couple of public betas will have the identifiers iOS 10.0.x and iOS 10.1.x.

  • In Depth Review on Ars (Score:3)

    by cant_get_a_good_nick ( 172131 ) on Thursday July 07, 2016 @01:02PM (#52464193)

    ArsTechnica has a decent review [arstechnica.com], even though its still beta

  • Being a Mac and Linux user for sometime, I like working on my Mac but it is not my "go to" system and macOS will ensure that it stays that way. So a disclaimer, I am a programmer, so the majority of my work is not Photoshop or whatever grade A software everyone touts about as working perfectly on Mac. Compilers and mostly command line and IDE tools are what I mostly work with and things like Eclipse, Atom, and so on work pretty well across platforms. So I do get real work done on either platform. I get

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